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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: average joe who wrote (5358)	12/30/2000 11:05:34 PM
From: 2MAR$	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 28931

I have no idea who is this G.K. Chesterton ....nor am i drawn much to what he writes or what you intended by posting that to me. I find nothing monotonous about the world . Though I do feel that there is a dangerous point where people can become lost in a sense of monotony and annui. All I can simply state for the value of materialism is that maybe more Parents would be better off sitting quietly with their children , and really enjoying a sunset or sunrise with them together....than exposing continually over and over so early on , to an image of a dying martyred young Jewish philosopher , being horribly crucified by the Romans ,on a cross. Have you ever seen a sunrise or sunset? Inside yourself have you looked as well? If people wanted to portray a Jesus as he truely was , as a "Savior" it would be in a pose of ascension or in the act of being Babtised. For surely long before he was crucified , he died in the ego sense to the world of things and objects, for a greater sense of seeing. If you are going to teach about the suffering of the world then perhaps it is good to start with an emphasis on the joys that are real and sufferings that are real, relevent in the present , and not to some obscure , ancient and old worn out monotonys of the distant past. And fables long since proven false and unbelievable , of virgin births and garden of edens, and promised holy lands. As Joseph Campbell so beautifully and simply points out , the holy "Promised" land , was always that of the heart. One doesn't really extinguish the Evil of Hitler by pushing it endlessly over and over again in childrens faces....you just change the kind of thinking that was isolationist , caught up in self interest and bounded and zoned in blind nationalism ...that allowed people to be led by a Hitler , and others to remain blind to a Hitler. Then you have destroyed Hitler forever. Then you have a world that truely never motions itself in the direction of or see's the rise of a Hitler again. No need to have to look into that face again, or produce more like him...or to see someone dying on a cross. <IMO> *If you take Buddha , sitting poised in the lotus positon you have everything right there. The Sacrifice , the Renunciation, the Embracing of the greater self ,man come into his own as "Joyful Concious participator in the sorrows of the World"...as God fully intended us to be. In Buddha all encompassing example of compassion and love for the world to see for all time....all without the savgery and Torture that children never need to look upon again. The earlier Byzantine depictions of Jesus were one of a sheppard, a guide. That were better for children to see. again ....IMHO.